Apart from the Reich “flight tax” which every Jewish emigrant from the Reich has to pay, now must also pay a special emigration tax amounting on the average to between six and eight per cent of his assessed fortune, the J.T.A. learns from well informed quarters here. The emigration tax must be levied by the Jewish communities in Germany on wealthy members in order to facilitate the emigration of Jews without means of their own.
Special regulations compelling the communities to levy such a tax were first issued at Frankfort-on-the-Main last December. In Berlin they were introduced at the end of February, and since April they are in force throughout Germany. The amount of the tax varies from one-half to 15 per cent of the total capital. An emigrant, for instance, whose fortune has officially been estimated to amount to 300,000 Reichsmark has to pay five per cent of it as emigration tax.
Over 20 million marks have been netted by the Nazis by means of the emigration tax to date.
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